MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 3

MARKETING DAIRY PRODUCE

BUTTER TOR AMERICA. ALLEGED PREFERENCE TO NORT/1 ISLAND. By T«J»gi-apli—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The £rime Minister left for Canstchurch -this morning. A deputation representing the dairy factories of OUgo yesterday .waited on liimj, and asked for -mi alteration in the proposed arrangement with tlhe Uni«n Company iu eonncetion. with toe American trade, so thai, butter might be carried free from the small ports to tli<> port of call of the large steamer.--. They urged that .tjie Government' should not enter into •ttny contract with the Union Company:in which the North L-Jand received an ■allowance, of from a farthing to a half ; penny per lb on dairy produce over and above that allowed' to the South Island. They contended that one univer sal price, on as : f.o.b. basis, Bhould be mule for the "whole c.f New Zealan«. It was not. rigiit, that one Island should get preference 'over tihe other. LM.r Mttss'ey isaid that this recent eonference and' 'lib own Department had done their best to Obtain-the alteration asked for, bat-the company had positive fy declined to allow it. ' The onJ-y alternative was to ask Parliament to vote a sufficient sum to carry the Yiiilter free as de-iired, and he was of opinion that Parliament would refuse to givsuch a vote.